Yes, but then Ylonen went on to try and kill the beast he'd created by taking it non-free. If it wasn't for Theo and his posse, we'd all still be using a cranky, buggy, unsafe release of SSHv1.
IBM has been doing this in Thinkpads for a while (starting with the T40, I think) - mini-PCI wireless cards are whitelisted, and the PC will refuse to work with anything other than pure, 100% IBM parts.
One of the old British 8-bit computer magazines distributed a few issues with floppy plastic records containing software - the one I remember was a Thompson Twins adventure game. They functioned in exactly the same way as mentioned in the blurb - dub them to cassette and read them in.
Show me a patent that applies to "computers" in such a way as to prevent any general-purpose computer being produced without infringing on that patent.
No more internet.
The Internet is not patented, or indeed patentable.
No more internet routers.
TCP/IP is not patented.
No more TV.
TV was the end result of many different people's work. Thanks to patents, only the person "first past the post" reaps monetary benefit from that work. Golly, that's fair...
No more radios. The first patent on radio was eventually overturned, about 50 years after the original invention. Granting that patent was kind of pointless, wasn't it?
No more books.
Books cannot be patented, unless you've come up with a new and exciting way of gluing together cardboard and paper.
No more artwork.
Artwork cannot be patented.
No more music.
Music cannot be patented.
I guess you could buy a guitar and start to sing... but wait. Who's going to make a guitar?
Guitars were invented years before patents even existed. Are you suggesting retroactive patents now?
There's a big difference between being able to type in Japanese, and fully supporting Japanese text.
For example, does ABiword allow you to set your text to be 20x20 vertical lines, running right to left, with fixed spacing? This is the sort of feature that kept Ichitaro around for a long time when it should otherwise have been dead (for all intents and purposes, it is dead now, but back in the day, there was quite a lot of infighting in government departments between the entrenched Ichitaro users and the upstart Word users).
Why would that be so unlikely? I sincerely doubt that the US legal system checks prior art in Japan before making decisions in US patent infringement cases, so why should Japan look at foreign prior art?
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander...
Does anyone know the figure for Linux-on-Mach? I know it's much greater than 5%....
MkLinux (Linux running on the original series of PowerMacs) was a Linux-on-Mach system. In comparison to the monolithic PPCLinux, it had a performance penalty of around 15-20%.
His point being, Apple have supposedly specifically said that opening the case will not void the warranty. He was asking for a reliable source to confirm this rumour.
I seem to recall a case a few years ago where a cracker used a bug in the logging process to force the printer to "line up" before outputting each line of log, resulting in the entire intrusion log being a piece of paper with a single-line-sized hole in it...
It's possible to switch off the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination in your XF86Config file - it makes it a bit trickier to recover when your X server really does crash, but I find it to be a lot safer.
No, because the US government has shown it has less than zero interest in even attempting to reduce the CO2 output of industry (including power generation), whereas other countries could quite possibly be more cooperative.
Nah, 10 million won't be anywhere near enough. More than that have died from drought+famine over the last thirty years, but you see bugger all being done about it.
I figure it'll take 100 million or more people dying over a span of ten years or less, with at least 10% of that total from developed countries.
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Not bought it out and sold its citizens into slavery?
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And yes, I did use it back in the day.
Yes, but then Ylonen went on to try and kill the beast he'd created by taking it non-free.
If it wasn't for Theo and his posse, we'd all still be using a cranky, buggy, unsafe release of SSHv1.
IBM has been doing this in Thinkpads for a while (starting with the T40, I think) - mini-PCI wireless cards are whitelisted, and the PC will refuse to work with anything other than pure, 100% IBM parts.
If you don't like it, don't buy it...
No, sounds about right. I remember one of the first commercial distributions I bought came with BRU.
One of the old British 8-bit computer magazines distributed a few issues with floppy plastic records containing software - the one I remember was a Thompson Twins adventure game. They functioned in exactly the same way as mentioned in the blurb - dub them to cassette and read them in.
No more computers.
Show me a patent that applies to "computers" in such a way as to prevent any general-purpose computer being produced without infringing on that patent.
No more internet.
The Internet is not patented, or indeed patentable.
No more internet routers.
TCP/IP is not patented.
No more TV.
TV was the end result of many different people's work. Thanks to patents, only the person "first past the post" reaps monetary benefit from that work. Golly, that's fair...
No more radios.
The first patent on radio was eventually overturned, about 50 years after the original invention. Granting that patent was kind of pointless, wasn't it?
No more books.
Books cannot be patented, unless you've come up with a new and exciting way of gluing together cardboard and paper.
No more artwork.
Artwork cannot be patented.
No more music.
Music cannot be patented.
I guess you could buy a guitar and start to sing... but wait. Who's going to make a guitar?
Guitars were invented years before patents even existed. Are you suggesting retroactive patents now?
There's a big difference between being able to type in Japanese, and fully supporting Japanese text.
For example, does ABiword allow you to set your text to be 20x20 vertical lines, running right to left, with fixed spacing? This is the sort of feature that kept Ichitaro around for a long time when it should otherwise have been dead (for all intents and purposes, it is dead now, but back in the day, there was quite a lot of infighting in government departments between the entrenched Ichitaro users and the upstart Word users).
Why would that be so unlikely? I sincerely doubt that the US legal system checks prior art in Japan before making decisions in US patent infringement cases, so why should Japan look at foreign prior art?
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander...
Does anyone know the figure for Linux-on-Mach? I know it's much greater than 5%....
MkLinux (Linux running on the original series of PowerMacs) was a Linux-on-Mach system. In comparison to the monolithic PPCLinux, it had a performance penalty of around 15-20%.
...it may seem relatively orthogonal to the topic, I believe people may still be interested in... ...The Mystery of Britney Spears' Breasts!
His point being, Apple have supposedly specifically said that opening the case will not void the warranty. He was asking for a reliable source to confirm this rumour.
Unlikely, unless there's a vulnerability in the TCP/IP stack - most exploits need at least a SYN-SYN-ACK before they do their thing.
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...what happened to this story? It's not like we haven't seen dupes before...
Once you start, you find it hard to stop.
/home/bjh/tmp/ebaum . .
You're not kidding... I've been there a couple of times before, but seeing it mentioned again made me visit it one more time:
$ pwd
$ ls -1 | wc -l
58
$ du -sk
111632
$
That site is like friggin' crack...
Another option is to screw with the Ethernet connection to prevent the TX side of the connection working - see here for details.
I seem to recall a case a few years ago where a cracker used a bug in the logging process to force the printer to "line up" before outputting each line of log, resulting in the entire intrusion log being a piece of paper with a single-line-sized hole in it...
It's possible to switch off the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination in your XF86Config file - it makes it a bit trickier to recover when your X server really does crash, but I find it to be a lot safer.
Ah, OK. I see your point.
You sure could have fooled me...
... ... /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins/theorarend.so /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins/vidsite.so /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins/vorbisrend.so ... ...
$ rpm -ql RealPlayer
That's from the RPM linked directly off the page given above.
I think the developers will find that "k-rad" is a sucky basis for the name of a browser.
No, because the US government has shown it has less than zero interest in even attempting to reduce the CO2 output of industry (including power generation), whereas other countries could quite possibly be more cooperative.
Nah, 10 million won't be anywhere near enough. More than that have died from drought+famine over the last thirty years, but you see bugger all being done about it.
I figure it'll take 100 million or more people dying over a span of ten years or less, with at least 10% of that total from developed countries.
Uh, yeah. Right. All these reports about the consequences of global warming are written by "economists and sociology professors".
Keep on repeating that to yourself when you're three metres underwater, pal.